Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 2 | In those days , it seemed to me that released hostages had come out of deepest , darkest Africa . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that various things he did could have gone into other directions , but some kind of self-protective mechanism of his just pulled him back and he did what he knew . ’ |
| 4 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 5 | It all seemed to me one more way of getting people to stop thinking for themselves — a highly convenient and complacent way of life — for if you took the advice offered and made a mess of things , then it could always be someone else 's fault . |
| 6 | An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ . |
| 7 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 8 | To her surprise , he wrote to her more that winter than at any time before and she was touched to find him attempting more than the sweet but stilted compositions he had managed previously . |